Here's to Shutting Up is the eighth studio album by Superchunk

Superchunk

Superchunk is an American indie rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, consisting of singer/guitarist Mac McCaughan, guitarist Jim Wilbur, bassist Laura Ballance, and drummer Jon Wurster. Formed in 1989, they were one of the bands that helped define the Chapel Hill music scene of the 1990s...

. Brian Paulson, who served as co-producer, previously worked with the band on 1994's Foolish

Foolish (album)

Foolish is Superchunk's fourth studio album. It was recorded November 30 through December 2, 1993, at Pachyderm Studios, by Brian Paulson. It was released by Merge Records in 1994.The cover art is credited to the band's bassist, Laura Ballance....

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On this album, the band continued to develop away from the fuzzy punk-pop of its earlier days to something more textured. Keyboards, strings and acoustic guitars abound, and even a pedal steel makes an appearance on "Phone Sex."

The band left "Phone Sex" out of the initial performances of the accompanying tour; with the 11 September 2001 attacks a painfully fresh memory, the members felt uncomfortable performing a song featuring the lyrics "Plane crash footage on TV / I know, I know that could be me." http://www.highbeam.com/library/docFree.asp?DOCID=1G1:85700188

The title of the album is taken from the opening of the song "Out on the Wing."

Track listing

1. "Late-Century Dream" - 4:37
2. "Rainy Streets" - 2:07
3. "Phone Sex" - 4:54
4. "Florida's on Fire" - 3:11
5. "Out on the Wing" - 5:51
6. "The Animal Has Left its Shell" - 3:32
7. "Act Surprised" - 3:59
8. "Art Class (Song for Yayoi Kusama
   Yayoi Kusama
   is a Japanese artist whose paintings, collages, soft sculptures, performance art and environmental installations all share an obsession with repetition, pattern, and accumulation...
   
   )" - 4:15
9. "What Do You Look Forward To?" - 7:41
10. "Drool Collection" - 3:32